The Washington Post is suggesting Tuesday that it's somehow national news that a high-school football coach in northern Alabama was caught on tape mocking Michelle Obama for having a "fat butt."

Post reporter Krissah Thompson used this mini-story -- football coach secretly recorded by students who apparently want him fired, and he's already been suspended -- to remind people that Rush Limbaugh and Rep. James Sensenbrenner have also mocked the First Lady's rear end, and this means our "country of white people" are "not showing adequate respect for and devaluing the bodies of black women." Unsurprisingly, then the Post connects this to "historical antecedents" in slave times:

Her presence as first lady challenges the historic view of a black womans place and notions of beauty, says Michaela Angela Davis, a fashion expert who has campaigned for more positive images of black women in the media. Michelle is black from a distance. Shes a REAL black girl, Davis says. A lot of people have tried to make diversity into this weird beige thing. Her presence is just really powerful to interject into the global consciousness.

The first ladys critics are reacting to the culture in which theyve grown up or they are using it as a code to racialize Michelle Obama and remind people that shes black, says Andra Gillespie, an associate professor of political science at Emory University. It is unreasonable to expect a nearly 50-year-old woman to have the body of a 25-year-old.

The thread is already down to competing versions of 'baby got back' ~ so there you have it.

Michelle definitely has one of those classic derrieres that so many women try to get rid of to no avail. She imagines that if the national diet were changed to starvation mode that would help her shed a few pounds as well ~ but sorry, does not compute. The genes pack it on and there it is.

We all understand this ~ but Michelle is not exhibiting good mental health by fighting her genes, and then making the rest of us live out her failed solution.

"She's a REAL black girl,,,unlike all the fake black girls out there. And Gillespie is admitting she has a fat butt, but you just can't say it,,,or you're a racist."

Translation:

The word Hottentot is first recorded in the late 17th century and was a name applied by white Europeans to the Khoikhoi. It is now regarded as offensive with reference to people and should always be avoided in favour of Khoikhoi or the names of the particular peoples.

Michelle carries genes of the KhoiKhoi tribe of South Africa

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posted on 02/05/2013 5:22:50 AM PST
by DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)

Maybe people can say she is big-boned? That is how I used to hear people describe certain people, and it had NOTHING to do with race. Her race (and Barry’s), is used as a crutch to shiled them from everything. It is silly and demeaning to all.

I don’t find Michelle Obama attractive, but that has a whole lot more to do with the apparent snobbery, arrogance, and anger than with her size. However, it’s not productive to focus on her in any respect. The real threat is her husband and those who support him, and we cannot afford to divide our attention when freedom is facing immediate and exceptionally grave danger from the man in our White House.

"Post reporter Krissah Thompson used this mini-story -- football coach secretly recorded by students who apparently want him fired, and he's already been suspended -- to remind people that Rush Limbaugh and Rep. James Sensenbrenner have also mocked the First Lady's rear end, and this means our "country of white people" are "not showing adequate respect for and devaluing the bodies of black women."

Well Krissy .. it's then .... an anatomical observation.

Is it OK to just tell you

gfy

??

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posted on 02/05/2013 5:53:53 AM PST
by knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)

Thanks for that. I knew a black woman years ago who was almost an exact double of Michelle. Same height same body shape almost identical facial features. She was a huge powerful woman with long arms and legs and high cheekbones. Michelle is not fat she is just big. I always felt like it was a tribal thing.

I have NEVER heard Rush refer to Obama’s fat ass wife as Michelle ‘My Butt” Obama. He calls her Michelle “My Belle” Obama which can actually be a term of endearment. The Washington Post and / or it’s author should be royally sued by Rush.

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